"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
-Albert Einstein
I think it's just human nature to have to complicate things. But when you're in the clinic, that is no time to be an academic or philosopher.
I've always harped on clinical results. Working in the clinic is working in the trenches so to speak. This is where the rubber meets the road. Any flowery ideas of acupuncture or Chinese medicine, all the lovely beautiful concepts and theories, they mean nothing. Results are the only thing that matters - and the treatments behind them. While many think this disparages the "art", what it actually is, is putting the patient first. I will never apologize for putting the patient above ideology that doesn't deliver results, and only serves to comfort one's ego.
I've seen so many peeps brag about what they can do. What they know, how they can "control qi", or the degrees they have. Something is always missing in this bragging though - the patient.
Learning is fun, philosophy is extremely interesting, exploring new idea is important. But in the clinic it's all about keeping it simple.
Likewise, how are you explaining things to your patients? Are you lecturing on the differences between acupuncture and dry needling? Are you over explaining how your treatments are helping them? Have you noticed they glaze over after about 30 seconds?
It's best to keep working on your scripts and saying things very direct. Give the patients what they need - results. We excel in the clinic, delivering the tools we've learned. If we're talking, we're not working (unless you can do both at the same time).
And please, keep it simple!
Dr Lombardi shares a titbit about the importance of following the Exstore scan for TVA
Check out this clip from the April seminar where Anthony talks about lines of tension. For those who are going to the sports seminar in Mesa Arizona this weekend, you were going to learn all about these and a whole lot more. It’s content ever before taught, and will put you leaves and bounds ahead of everyone else. And the best part is, it’s not just for athletes, it’s important information for all of your MSK patients!
If you've been getting burned out, annoyed, frustrated, it's not your patients, it's you. You're probably not practicing within your passion, or at least what interests you. And you're not setting healthy boundaries.
If you took EXSTORE™, you can join the meeting this Sunday at 1:15pm EST. We're going to talk about this and how your messaging and marketing are not aligned with your passion and purpose. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/smHIUMNvTWySJCYZ75aYzA
Any information on treating tinnitus? I have had some success with reduction but would love any information on more refined techniques.
Hi Doc @Exstoreman,
Any tips for when patient presents with anterior shoulder pain. ache at night with a heavy feeling and pain on random movements especially horizontal adduction. I have two cases now - I start with exstore and correct inhibitions, clean up trophic changes, heaviness improves and the ache at night reduces a little but the impingement pain is still present. Finding it hard to shift. Grazie
